Walking Forward to the Beginning (Book 5)

Formal Complaint

*Formal Complaint that I lodged with my school about a professor. This isn't a poem.*

When you put your all into something and get something half-assed back, it's time to go to a higher person. Below is the formal complaint I filed against my last "professor". Hell hath no fury like a pissed off Ph.D. student. Ready?

I'm extremely disappointed with this "professor" and this class. It's diversity in the workplace which should be a fascinating class that teaches a lot. But instead, we have a professor that only made us stick to affirmative action and sexual orientation related issues along with employment law.

I'm probably the only one in my class that has any legal background other than the professor though my knowledge of employment law is maybe about a paragraph. The class was so broad that it was hard to wrap your mind around anything. There was zero cohesion! I had a class similar to this during my MBA, and it was amazing! Our professor there was an attorney herself, and she made the class so fascinating! We did these really interesting case studies as projects, and we learned so much. Here I feel like I spent 5 out of 6 weeks learning 7 different ways to make sexual orientation work in the workplace! I can't emphasize this enough on just how much this class needs an overhaul. Most classes require out of the box thinking. This class is so broad, it doesn't have a box, and it needs one. But that isn't even the biggest issue.

The instructor has ignored my emails practically every week regarding getting in grades on time and other issues. I have attached emails that I have sent her because that is how often I had to remind her to put the grades up. It is inexcusable that she would constantly forget. We are STILL missing week 5 assignment grades and all of week 6. Our whole class is up in arms. She admitted to me in an email that she forgets to put grades up but that our discussion grades will be up each Thursday and the Assignment grades each Saturday. She may have met those deadlines one week.

Week 4 her excuse was that there were some technical difficulties and she had to contact tech support. Week 5, I decided to contact tech support myself and see what was going on. According to them, everything was fine on their end, and it is all her. So what is going on? Where are the grades? Being a professor should be something one does because they believe in helping their students learn, not as another income resource! She hasn't guided us at all during our 6 weeks. She has completely fallen off the map, and we are in class 4 and still, don't have grades for Week 5 or 6 of class 3! I can't even underscore how ridiculous this is!

I'm a Ph.D. student not in high school! My tuition is high; in fact, it is the same as Pace University's Lubin School of Business Ph.D. program where I graduated with my BBA! For that kind of money, I expect a good education, not some half-assed attempt! If she can't do her job, she shouldn't be teaching! Where does this school get its educators? I can do a better job teaching this course, and I don't have a JD! There are a lot of people who can do a good job that needs it. Not everyone is cut out to be a professor.

I'm not saying all this because I'm not getting good grades; on the contrary, I have a top GPA, and this was my 3rd class. I just expect to be taught properly. After everything I've been through health wise, I demand proper education. Not too many people can go through a long and debilitating illness, then start a Ph.D. program of their dreams, and get a 4.0 GPA while battling brain fog and concentration issues every step of the way.

I demand answers! Someone better figure out what is going on and get our grades to us as well as handle this issue of this neglectful person because I can't call her a professor anymore. She's anything but!